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PAUL SCHMIDT  

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 Alice         Bacchae, The         Bathtub, The         Bear, The         Bedbug, The         Bugs!         Dangers Of Tobacco, The         Festivities, The         In The Jungle Of The Cities         Ivanov         Light in the Dark: Chekhov Shorts         Phaedra         Proposal, The         Reluctant Tragic Hero, The         Screens, The         Seagull, The         Swan Song         Three Sisters, The         Tragedy, A         Wedding Reception, The

Alice

Alice
Lewis Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell

Notes:
by Paul Schmidt; music by Tom Waits; lyrics by Tom Waits And Kathleen Brenan

1st Produced:
Thalia Theatre, Hamburg    1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Yale School Of Drama Magazine" volume 26 number 3 1996   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Epitath (6632-2) 2001

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Genre:
Musical

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Bacchae, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA    21 Nov 1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Translation

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Bathtub, The

Bathtub, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Bugs! Three Plays" published by Green Integer 2009   978-1933382760

Music:
-

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Bear, The

Synopsis:
a landowner comes to claim a debt from a young woman whose husband has just died. Out of grief, she refuses to see him-her attempt to prove to her faithless dead husband that women are more loyal than men. Eventually, the young widow and the landowner quarrel and decide to fight a duel, leaving the landowner so impressed that he falls madly in love and proposes. The widow accepts.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bedbug, The

Bedbug, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Bugs! Three Plays" published by Green Integer 2009   978-1933382760

Music:
-

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Bugs!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Bugs! Three Plays" published by Green Integer 2009   978-1933382760

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Dangers Of Tobacco, The

Synopsis:
portrays the shaky state of mind of a henpecked man whose wife runs a boarding school. At the end of this tragi-comic piece, the man is saved from a breakdown by the sudden arrival of his wife.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Festivities, The

Synopsis:
a pompous, self-important bank manager prepares to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the branch office he manages. He arranges for a series of "spontaneous" tributes to his supposed expertise, but chaos ensues when his wife returns from a visit to her mother's, and a crazy woman comes looking for a job for her husband.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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In The Jungle Of The Cities

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA    20 Feb 1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ivanov

Synopsis:
Ivanov, a landowner who farms a large estate, is in debt, and his wife, whom he no longer loves, is dying of tuberculosis. He owes money everywhere and has reached the point of despair. The love of Sasha, a young girl in the neighborhood, seems to offer him a way out, but the neighbors accuse him of merely trying to obtain the girl's money. He is torn by feelings of guilt when his wife dies, but is determined to marry Sasha. During the period of their engagement even this relationship sours on him, and on the morning of his wedding day, he can no longer live a lie and he shoots himself. A series of brilliant character parts enliven this semi-tragic play with moments of great humor.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full length Translation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Light in the Dark: Chekhov Shorts

Synopsis:
East and West meet in Light in the Dark: Chekhov Shorts. The evening begins with Swan Song (1887), about an alcoholic actor and a prompter who get locked into a theater overnight. The prompter is left to ease the actor's woes about a life wasted in pursuit of art. This piece is accompanied by The Bear(1888), in which a widow in mourning is visited by a persistent bill collector. Rounding out the evening are two short interludes: "Salpuri," a traditional Korean dance of mourning, and Pamina's aria from The Magic Flute by Mozart.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Theatre 54 @ Shetler    04 Dec 2009

Organisations:
Theatre HAN

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  varies

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Phaedra

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Racine

1st Produced:
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts    1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Proposal, The

Synopsis:
THE PROPOSAL portrays a nervous young farmer who comes to propose to his neighbor's daughter. Instead of making the proposal, the two young people get involved in comic arguments. The young man leaves, the girl goes into hysterics until the father goes after the young man, who returns. He finally proposes, she accepts, and the two go on fighting.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Reluctant Tragic Hero, The

Synopsis:
Our hero spends the summer in the country, but is driven to the brink of distraction by various demands to run errands in the city and bring back lots of odd items to the country with him.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Screens, The

Synopsis:
A 26-member cast of actors, artists, musicians and dancers re-imagine Jean Genet's last work, The Screens-a poetic combustion so strong and dense that it will illuminate the world of the dead." Welcome to a world in which becoming a hero is the worst of all fates and betrayal the ultimate triumph. The Screens, set during the Algerian War, is a sharply humorous exorcism of today's taboos seen through Genet's subversive glee. This show is presented by Columbia University School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Genet

1st Produced:
Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Ave, NY    03 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Columbia Stages

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  26 actors

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Seagull, The

Synopsis:
NAATCO's production of The Seagull takes its cue from Chekhov's subtitle: "A Comedy in 4 Acts." Director Gia Forakis excavates the vaudevillian sense of humor in the play and couples it with the bitter despair of Chekhov's characters to provoke what she calls "comedy's wicked step-cousin, the grotesque," where tragedy and comedy live alongside one another. This production employs an all-Asian cast.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Swan Song

Synopsis:
An actor wakes up with a hangover, locked in the theater after the evening's performance. He is terrified when he thinks a ghost appears, but it is only the theater's prompter. The actor tells him stories of his life and also of his doubts about his career. Unburdened, he goes off cheered, reciting great speeches from Shakespeare

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Three Sisters, The

Synopsis:
the death of Tusenbach in a meaningless quarrel is one more of the losses which empty the sisters' future of meaning

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Glasgow    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Tragedy, A

Tragedy, A
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Bugs! Three Plays" published by Green Integer 2009   978-1933382760

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Wedding Reception, The

Synopsis:
In THE WEDDING RECEPTION a daffy young couple, with equally daffy family and friends, desires an "important" wedding reception. To get it, they pay a friend to bring a general with him. The friend pockets the money and instead shows up with a retired sailor, who drives the party crazy with his sea stories.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play Translation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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